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Windows Vista Service Pack Problems

Something went wrong with my gaming PC recently and it started BSODing on a regular basis. During these crashes I managed to lose or corrupt something in Vista.

I went for a clean install after searching a bunch of forum posts, few of which helped.
Most said my memory was suspect, but my GTX260's fan wasn't spinning up so I figured that was the problem. Yay for more expensive.

Anyway, the problem with the re-install was applying service packs. What a piece of work this turned out to be.

Drupal Issue

We are currently experiencing an issue with editing account information.
The problem is being researched and status will be provided when information is available.

The following sites are affected:

http://tech.kulish.com
http://family.kulish.com
http://www.iowajeep.net
http://www.racebus.org

Blood Bowl and Steam

Well, Blood Bowl (Games Workshop, Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive) was "released" on Steam November 25th, 2009 in the US. Released being quoted since I am still getting an error when trying to launch it.

"This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time."

The only thing that chaps me worse than not getting what I pay for is not getting what I pay for AND not getting any support either.

D4rk Theme Issues

New Drupal theme issues:

(FIXED)1. Text - Links Too dark. The gray is a couple shades too dark for it's background color.

(FIXED)2. Text - Black text, in text entry areas, is too dark. (search box)

(FIXED)3. Spacing - Spacing on articles and blocks.
There needs to be a CR between the controls of an article teaser and the title of the next.
In blocks, there needs to be a CR at the end.

(MOSTLY)4. Preview - white text on white background. Mostly fixed. You can now see the body but some fields, like author, still have some white text on white background. Comment preview works fine however.

(FIXED)5. Bottom AdSense block not showing properly. (Apparently main page only)

(FIXED)6. Pager black text too dark.

CIALUG, the local linux users group, suggested using firebug to find these issues.

Building a MySQL Capable Postfix RPM

Build Environment:
CentOS 5 x86_64
Postfix 2.3.3 Sources
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)

2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

50+ Hard Drives

I've used more than 50 hard drives in my home IT projects over the years and I've never had one start to fail. Keep in mind, these are commodity, off-the-shelf, drives. Meant for laptops, not the continual usage they see here.

Don't get me wrong, I've had them get loud. Loud to the point I have replaced them to maintain sanity but I've never had one report bad sectors... Until now.

I guess I've been lucky.

Google Maps and your Garmin on Ubuntu and Windows

Or, "Where the hell are we?!" Part 2:

I recently bought a Nuvi 255W for some business travel coming up. I didn't want to install Map Source since I don't plan on buying any map packs any time soon. What I found was Garmin Communicator.

Windows:
Straight forward download and install.

Linux (Ubuntu):
apt-get install wine-gecko
Download Garmin Communicator
Download Firefox for Windows
Use wine to install Firefox and the Communicator plugin

Adding Waypoints:
To add waypoints using Google Maps, run the Windows version of Firefox.

Raw FTP Commands

I retrieved it from here: http://www.nsftools.com/tips/RawFTP.htm

List of raw FTP commands
(Warning: this is a technical document, not necessary for most FTP use.)

Note that commands marked with a * are not implemented in a number of FTP servers.

RHEL 5 Failed Login Locks

In /etc/pam.d/system-auth:

auth required pam_env.so
auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail deny=3 <-- Need tally to record failures
auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth required pam_deny.so

account required pam_tally.so reset <-- Same as above
account required pam_unix.so
account sufficient pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account required pam_permit.so

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